Nicolás Andrés Grau Veloso (born 9 April 1983) is a
Chilean business manager
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,
economist
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and
politician
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who has been as Chile's Minister of
Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism since 11 March 2022.
Biography
Grau is the son of Francisco Grau Mascayano and
Paulina Veloso, the former
Secretary-General of the Presidency during
Michelle Bachelet
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's first government (2006−2010). Despite he was born in
Concepción, at a young age he moved with his family to
Santiago
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. In Chile's capital city, Grau attended basic and secondary education at the Raimapu School in
La Florida.
He completed his
BA at the
Universidad de Chile
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Student Federation
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(FECh) from 2005 to 2006. Similarly, he was publicly questioned for the failed celebration of the FECh first centenary, where were lost around $120 million
pesos
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.
[
In 2011, he studied a ]master's degree
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at the University of Chile. Then, he did a Ph.D.
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−also in economics− at the University of Pennsylvania
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, in Philadelphia
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, United States
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.
Political career
Parallel to his position as president of the FECh, Grau was a member of the Izquierda Amplia, which grouped the Assembly of Students of the Left, the New University Left —to which he belonged— and the SurDa movement. He had a prominent role as a university leader in the 2006 student mobilization. Also, he was a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Education.
Grau has worked as a scholar at the FEN. Also, he is a researcher at the Center for Studies on Conflict and Social Cohesion (COES).
In 2017, Grau participated in the foundation of the Broad Front (FA) coalition. Similarly, from 2016, he was a member of the Autonomist Movement
The Autonomist Movement was a Chilean political movement which was a founding member of the Broad Front on 21 January 2017. One year later, the movement merged into the party Social Convergence alongside Libertarian Left, Socialism and Libert ...
(MA), which merged into Social Convergence
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It was founded in 2018 by the Autonomist Movement (MA), Libertarian Left (IL) (a part of the movement left the party in 2019), Socialism and Fre ...
led by the then deputy Gabriel Boric
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, also leader of the MA. In that way, Grau was part of the presidential campaigns of Beatriz Sánchez (2017
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) and Boric, who won the 2021 elections against José Antonio Kast
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Part of the ...
.
On 22 January 2022, Grau was appointed as Minister of Economy, Development, and Tourism by the elected president Boric.twitter
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in 2020 and 2021 where he made hateful comments against Chilean police
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References
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1983 births
Living people
21st-century Chilean economists
21st-century Chilean politicians
Members of the Autonomist Movement
Social Convergence politicians
University of Chile alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Chilean Ministers of Economy